Organized by Francisco Buera and Mark Wright

Friday, October 16, 2009

9:00 - 9:30: Coffee and pastries
9:30 - 10:45: Demian Pouzo
"Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Default under Incomplete Markets"
10:45 - 11:15: coffee
11:15 - 12:30: Adrien Verdelhan "Sovereign Risk Premia"
(with Nicola Borri)
12:30 - 2:00: Lunch at UCLA Faculty Club
2:00 - 3:15: Igor Livshits "Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit"
(with Michele Tertilt and James MacGee)
3:15 - 3:45: coffee
3:45 - 5:00: Juan Sanchez
"The Role of Information in the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies"